Captain Frank Santoni – Chief Test Pilot, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Talks about the B787 & B747-8 programs

It seems like only yesterday that we were extremely proud when somebody of merit made the statement that one of our simulators flew "just like the aircraft".  Now we're frequently hearing the reverse !!

I attended a presentation that Frank Santoni gave to the Hong Kong branch of the RAeS in December of last year mainly about 747-8 flight testing, and was most impressed with Frank and of course the subject matter.  There was video footage of things that are not normally seen outside of the flight test fraternity.  

Hopefully I can obtain copies of this footage for our FSTD Evaluators course, but in the meantime I thought you may be interested in the following video of Frank recently being interviewed by the Society, where he says that there were no surprises when flying the aircraft, it was just like the simulator !!

Bob Earp - TTI Managing Partner